Monday, March 12, 2007

Certainly no need to check the calendar today

Moms unite against Daylight Savings Time! Who's with me?

After a nearly 30-minute struggle to drag (literally and figuratively) my children from their beds this morning, I finally get them to school. As I'm changing Opie into his slippers I spot a police car through the side door. "Look kids, a police car!" "Why is there a police car at our school, Mommy?" "I don't know...OK, time to take Opie into his class!"

You know what the police car was doing? Giving me a parking ticket. Directly in front of the school. Where I (and every other parent) have been parking every morning and afternoon for three solid years. Granted, right underneath a no parking sign, but I uh, guess I thought it didn't apply to me or something. Also: this block contains the school on one side, and TWO houses on the other. What's with the draconian parking laws?

24 comments:

Ugh. That's lousy. Have you ever tried to contest a ticket? Sometimes the clerks take pity...

In a stroke of sheer genius hubby and I took the girls for a walk in knee deep snow. Ok, maybe it waas more cabin fever then, but now genius the girls slept the sleep of battle weary warriers. No struggle with the change in time.

It is just so wrong, this early Daylight Savings Time. Since Bub was born, I've always counted down the days until it's time to spring forward, because by that time the sun was rising at 6, and the time change meant we could go back to getting up at 7. Now, it means getting up in pitch blackness (really great way to save energy, huh?). sigh.

That woulda cost you $50 in DC, and at my son's school (which has been open for all of 2.5 months now) the parking enforcement people circle like vultures. A friend got a ticket for having her bumper hanging out one foot into a no-parking zone, written during the perhaps 10 minutes it took her to walk her daughter into the school. This is what you get in a city that isn't able to tax the incomes of most of the people who work here....

That is hysterical, $10 is even more hysterical. Listen, I'm being rude and obnoxious today. I"m trying to prevent from going to work outside he home so I'm whoring my new site where I intend to write ads for $$$. Will you go see me over there? http://www.lifeinreality.com You know, normally I blog at http://www.acracknlife.squarespace.com and I have ads on it already...please don't be mad at me

I got a stupid ticket last year. I was parked in a real parking spot, but because the back of my car hung over the sidewalk, I was impeding pedestrians or something. If you ask me, the parking spot shouldn't be there in the first place, because any car would have been over the sidewalk ... but that's how they make money, I guess ... and now I'm rambling but basically:

Daylight Savings time is hands-down the stupidest thing ever invented. It's even worse here in Alaska because we have 22 hours of daylight in the summer as it is so who cares about "saving" it. It's not as if we get more, it just throws everyone's sleep schedules off. Can you tell I'm grumpy from losing an hour?

y'know, i was living in hope for daylight savings time to come...because then, i figured, O would sleep until blissful 7 instead of wtf-am-i-doing-up-at-this-godforsaken-hour 6. no dice. he seems to have dropped yet another hour of sleep from his body clock entirely...and 6 now feels like 5 to my poor beleaugered self.